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Over 9 Years LVFS Has Served Over 110 Million Firmware Files To Linux Systems

Phoronix - Thu, 08/22/2024 - 00:35
This week marks nine years since the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) was started by Richard Hughes of Red Hat to ease the firmware updating/distribution process with the open-source Fwupd firmware updating utility...

NVIDIA 560.35.03 Linux Driver Released With More Wayland Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 08/21/2024 - 22:28
Building off the prior NVIDIA 560 beta driver releases, the NVIDIA 560.35.03 stable Linux driver was released today for providing the latest official NVIDIA graphics/compute support for Linux systems...

Experimental Schedutil Patches Yield 30% Boost To Web Browser Benchmark On Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 08/21/2024 - 21:51
Google engineer Qais Yousef has posted a set of 16 patches for the "Schedutil" scheduler utilization code within the Linux kernel to better manage system response time. Schedutil is often used by default on many Linux distributions and with these patches a popular web browser benchmark can be as much as 30% faster with these kernel patches...

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